Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1650MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)
128 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (184W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 7970 X2
3789
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
+89%
7181
Graphics Card
Aug 2012
Release Date
Dec 2021
Southern Islands
Generation
GeForce 20
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1470 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1650 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
192bit
264.0GB/s
Bandwidth
336.0GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
34
2048
Shading Units
2176
128
TMUs
136
32
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
272
-
RT Cores
34
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
29.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
79.20 GPixel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
224.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
14.36 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
7.181 TFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
224.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
184W
900 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
3x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
New Zealand
GPU Name
TU106
-
GPU Variant
TU106-300-KA-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Turing
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
12 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
10.8 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
445 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
7.5
5.1
Shader Model
6.6